SAPAC General Meeting - Monday March 22, 2004 Present: Nilofer, Mary Ann, Shashi, Anoop, Sanji, Rasheed, Sapna, Raj, Roshani, Aparna
1. Voices of Resistance 3: Our annual art show - Raised over $500 to be used to support future SAPAC events. - Aparna has a list of all people and list-serves the 'call for artists' was sent to and this will be used next year. - Roshani will send thank-you e-mails to the artists - VOR4: Look for it this time next year 2. Third I: Screening independent South Asian films - May screening of "Final Solutions" at Indo-American Center. We need money for travel, lodging, IAC space, and associated screening costs. - The "Third I committee" will pull together a one-pager on the film, including film bio, director bio, finances needed, and call for co-sponsors.. This one-pager will help us garner funds. - IMC and Building Bridges may be willing to help out. - Third I has established a relationship with Chicago Filmmakers, who will screen Third I films. Look for that announcement. 3. South Asian writers - Mary Ann is going to look into bringing SA writers to Chicago for SAPAC events. This includes "Poets and Writers" 4. Website & listserves - Nilofer is in the midst of migrating the SAPAC listserv to yahoo groups. This should be complete in the next few weeks. 5. Breakthrough's Forum for a New America: This is an event being organized in NYC in April by Breakthrough Inc and NYU School of Law designed to increase youth participation in the political process. - Possibility of SAPAC bringing this event to Chicago in September - Aparna will set up a conference call with Mallika Dutt and other committee members (Rasheed, Nilofer, Anoop). - Questions to ask include the partisan nature of the event; flexibility of the agenda; the finances; and anticipated role of SAPAC. 6. Bhopal event: A Discussion on the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal - Roshani met with Kamyani from the Association of India Development, who wants to organize an event to share information about the International Campaign in Bhopal. - Ryan Bodyani will speak. - Event set for April 23rd - Roshani and Aparna to work on the press for event. - Look for the announcements 7. Hinduism Conference: Diversity & Modernity [@ Northwestern University on April 9-11] - SAPAC will be sending representation to this event (Raj, Shashi, Anoop). Anyone else interested in attending should contact Shashi at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8. Building Bridges: This is a broad-based coalition that includes SAPAC. - Dr. Ram Puniyani of India's EKTA Organization will be speaking on Sunday, April 4 at 2pm at Indian Prairie Public Library in Darien. For more information and directions, please go to http://www.bridgesofunderstanding.org/Events.html - Snacks will be served. Registration is free. Please RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Coalition for a Secular and Democratic India (CSDI), another member of the "Building Bridges" is seeking 501c3 status. SAPAC will have representation on their board (Shashi Menon). - Sapna Gupta and Shashi presented to Congressman Danny Davis on current events in India. 9. People's Movements in India - Nilofer will be convening a meeting for all those interested in participating. Watch for that announcement. 10. Bhangra for Unity - Planning for this event in August 2004. Sub-committee is Nilofer, Sanji, and Shashi. NEXT MEETING: APRIL 5th; 6:30pm; Location TBA ------------------------------------------------ visit http://www.geocities.com/sapacchicago email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe sapac" in msg body to unsubscribe
